Antoine de Saint-Yon

Antoine de Saint-Yon was a French physician and chemist of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Biography

Antoine de Saint-Yon passed his medical thesis in 1671 with the title: An instante febrium excandescentia, accessione, purgandum?[1]

In 1677, he practised as a docteur regent[note 1] at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris[2] and was dean from 1704 to 1706.[3] He was médecin par quartier of the King Louis XVI.[4][note 2]

He was a substitute professor for Guy-Crescent Fagon at the chair of chemistry in the Jardin du Roi in 1695, 1707 and 1715.[5] Among his students were Sébastien Vaillant[6] and Gilles-François Boulduc.[7]

Antoine de Saint-Yon died without having left any writing on medicine or chemistry.

Notes
  1. Title formerly given to doctors who were professors in theology, law or medicine of Paris.
  2. Physician per quarter: a physician who serves with a sovereign per quarter year.

References
  1. de Sainct-Yon, Antoine (1671). An instante febrium excandescentia, accessione, purgandum? (Praes. Joanne Robert. Cand. Antonio De Sainct-Yon) (in Latin).
  2. de Saint-André, François (1677). Entretiens sur l'acide et sur l'alkali (in French).
  3. Freeman, Sarah Elizabeth (1946). "The Jetons of the Deans of the Old Faculty of Medicine in Paris". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 19 (1): 48–95. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44442879. PMID 21015991.
  4. Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne; Maar, Vilhelm; Royal College of Physicians of London. n 80046799 (1902). L'autobiographie de J.B. Winslow (in French). Paris : Octave Doin. p. 96.
  5. "Histoire de la chimie au Muséum". Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes (MCAM) (in French). 2017-11-28. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  6. Vaillant, Sébastien (1727). Botanicon parisiense ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes, que se trouvent aux environs de Paris, compris dans la Carte de la Prévôté & de l'Élection de la dite Ville par Danet Gendre année MDCCXXII (in French). chez Jean & Herman Verbeek et Balthazar Lakeman.
  7. Dorveaux, Paul (1931). "Apothicaires membres de l'Académie Royale des Sciences : IV. Gilles-François Boulduc ; V. Etienne-François Geoffroy". Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie. 19 (74): 113–126. doi:10.3406/pharm.1931.9919.


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